Set JNDI location for EJB 3.0 Bean in jboss-4.2.1.GA

[mjremijan]

I'm using jboss-4.2.1.GA with EJB 3.0 session beans. I have 2 local, stateless session beans annotated with @Local. I can successfully deploy an EAR with the session beans as long as I do not have any configuration files.

However, I want to use jboss.xml to specify where in JNDI the beans should be put/bound.

When I add /META-INF/ejb-jar.xml and /META-INF/jboss.xml I get a NullPointerException when I try to deploy.

My ejb-jar.xml is:
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<ejb-jar>
 <enterprise-beans>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>AlumniLocal</ejb-name>
 <local>org.ferris.oths.domain.alumni.AlumniLocal</local>
 <ejb-class>org.ferris.oths.domain.alumni.AlumniEjb</ejb-class>
 <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
 <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
 </session>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>AlumniPropertiesLocal</ejb-name>
 <local>org.ferris.oths.domain.properties.AlumniPropertiesLocal</local>
 <ejb-class>org.ferris.oths.domain.properties.AlumniPropertiesEjb</ejb-class>
 <session-type>Stateless</session-type>
 <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
 </session>
 </enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

My jboss.xml is:
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<jboss>
 <enterprise-beans>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>AlumniLocal</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>oths-domain/AlumniLocal</jndi-name>
 </session>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>AlumniPropertiesLocal</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>oths-domain/AlumniPropertiesLocal</jndi-name>
 </session>
 </enterprise-beans>
</jboss>

Since the beans deploy fine without the configuration files (using only ejb3 annotations) there has to be somethign wrong with these configuration files. What am I doing wrong here?? How can I get this configuration correct??

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

ejb-jar.xml: I think you have to use "business-local" instead of "local". "local" is for EJB 2.1 beans, while "business-local" is for 3.0. With JBoss 4.2, I think both versions work, but in 5.0 this will no longer work. Probably, someone at JBoss misunderstood the spec and this was changed later ;-).

jboss.xml: you need "local-jndi-name" for you local interface, not "jndi-name". This might be the reason for your error.

Hope this helps

Wolfgang

[mjremijan]

Thanks! Making these changes worked.